Comrade Khinchuk!

I have decided to send you the pamphlet so as not to delay matters*. Once it is typeset, I request that you send it to me again.

Would it not be possible to add:

1) details concerning the reduction of the apparatus? By types of services?

2) the same regarding normalization (you have a department for this, I'm told)?

3) the same regarding the comparison of data (all of it generally) by quarters?

4) the same — in how many volosts (and %) and in how many villages (and % of all villages) are there sales points?

5) the price of tea? is it not too high? Are you aware that this is a luxury item? How do you determine the permissible maximum price for tea?

6) division of products into necessities and luxuries?

7) sale of agricultural implements and including improved ones? measures for their propaganda? 468

With comradely greetings,
Lenin

P.S. The pamphlet is very good.

1922

in the journal

* See the present volume, document 446. Ed.

Written in September, no earlier than the 18th

First published in 1924

"Union of Consumers" No. 5

Printed from the manuscript